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This is harassment of a religious group. They're even trying to outlaw halal-only restaurants and won't serve halal menus in schools.
Full-face veils outlawed as France spells out controversial niqab ban
I'm an American, educated in US Constitutional rights. This violates freedom of religion. The President actually voices his prejudice against Islam in the article:Sarkozy, desperate to secure the far-right electorate in next year's presidential election, is under fire for deliberately stigmatising France's Muslim population to win votes. He has ordered a nationwide debate on Islam's place in secular France, briefing journalists he wants no halal food options in school canteens, no prayers outside and no minarets. He was defiant on Thursday, giving a speech lauding the "Christian heritage of France".
This is harassment of a religious group. They're even trying to outlaw halal-only restaurants and won't serve halal menus in schools.
Look at this taunting:
VERY FEW WOMEN IN FRANCE WEAR hijab:
One indication of the mood of unease in France is local authorities taking steps to ban proposed "pork and wine aperitifs" by rightwingers deliberately staged near Muslim places of worship, including a "rosé wine and porchetta" evening to be held near a Muslim place of prayer in Nice on Friday night.
VERY FEW WOMEN IN FRANCE WEAR hijab:
"A tiny minority of women in France wear full niqab, far fewer than in the UK: Muslim groups estimate only a few hundred out of France's more than 5 million Muslim population."
They can't even wear scarves:
A worker in a private creche went to court and lost after she claimed she was fired for refusing to take off her headscarf. The education minister insisted that mothers in headscarves should not be allowed to accompany children on school outings. One mother banned from escorting her son's primary school class for wearing a simple head-covering said: "I'm French, not a fanatic, I just want to be able to practise my religion without being ostracised."
This is the same racist immigrant bashing as Arizona's anti-immigration crap, under the guise of "secularism!"
France doesn't give a DAMN about "liberating" Muslim women. They just want to provoke Muslim MEN, but disrespecting their women! Imagine, in this country, if women were ordered to go topless at the beach, under the guise of "liberating" us and FORCING us to be equal with men! Imagine your shame and embarrassment, the tears behind your eyes, if you were forced to remove your top in public!
Many Islamic women wear hijab out of cultural modesty. MANY wear it BECAUSE of this sort of religious persecution! I know women who went uncovered most of their adult lives who've begun wearing hijab as a progressive political statement: we will not be assimilated, we are as equal as you, we're just different and we have that right, it is our tradition, it is not a shame but a source of strength and pride.
If I were a French woman -- and especially if I were a French MAN -- I would BEGIN wearing hijab BECAUSE OF THIS LAW! How DARE Europe, ONE MORE TIME, impose its arrogant notion of cultural superiority on others??? It's PSYCHOLOGICAL COLONIALISM! They are FORCING the women, to show they have power over the men! Any woman caught veiled will be fined and SENT TO REEDUCATION CLASSES!
The Crusades are OVER! STOP imposing YOUR will on other traditions! This won't convince anybody; it will just alienate them and make them cling more desperately to what traditions they have left!
ANYBODY REMEMBER WHAT EUROPE DID TO JEWS FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS?????
PS: I am an atheist! I DO NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT RELIGION!
